ARTIST: DEBORAH FORT

PARTICLE THEORIES:

Time, Space and the Construction of Memory

An Interactive Video Installation by artist and filmmaker, Deborah Fort

Particle Theories, a three channel video and sound installation by Deborah Fort, borrows concepts from physics to explore the use of image in the construction of memory. Old home movies from an unknown family are used to represent the desire to codify and solidify memory, and by extension, history. History, like matter, is made up of small particles that are constantly moving. Our belief that it is solid and immutable is illusion. And yet our obsession with documenting our lives though photographs and video blurs the boundary between image and reality, so that what we remember is not our lived experience, but the rearrangement of silver particles on paper, or the flickering light on the wall.

DEBORAH FORT (CSF Professor and Founding Director of Girls Film School) is an award-winning video and filmmaker who works primarily in installation, personal narrative and documentary forms. Fort's work has been broadcast on public television and screened in festivals throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to her installation projects, Fort is currently working on a documentary on Ruth Zaporah, an internationally acclaimed improvisational theater artist.

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